things we've concluded.

DECISIONS/QUESTIONS for the day:

ticker experience: a-ha moment: ticker rhythm must stay the same at every intersection to keep patience (if each tick mark takes 3 seconds to appear, the pedestrian will become impatient and/or the signal will appear to be broken. we need to create the illusion of a swiftly moving intersection)

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size test: to determine optimum viewing size for circular light case, we have created a matrix based on existing measurements of current crosswalk lighted signals. we will test printouts of thirty six variations to determine the most advantageous ratio of walk man to ticker to environment. from here, we will determine the number of leds based on the longest wait/go time we can find.

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led size: determined by perimeter of circular light case divided by number of seconds of longest intersection wait/go time gives us the size of each tick. from here, we will figure out the size of led that will fit in each tick mark. we plan on accounting for extra time in addition to the longest wait/go just to be safe.
reasons for rhythm: tick must happen every second for constant stimulus and constant rhythm universal for all intersections. the second also references the clock and is an innate timing measurement. because tick marks blink every second, tick size varies according to intersection wait/go time frames.
black background: creates maximum contrast between colors and against cityscape. another reason for this is that a color background would be black at night anyway.
CURRENT SIGNALS:
technology behind current boxes: why so thick? what's inside?
color of current boxes: what's significant about school bus yellow? should aesthetics match new street furniture (bus shelters, new stands) from CEMUSA?
back of new boxes: ads? time? weather? blank?

tasks for tonight:
-brainstorm partial right of way
-visit columbus circle
-check lights for manufacturer's info

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tasks for next few days:
-time traffic lights
(keep individual logs)